I am currently a researcher at Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI). Prior to that, I interned at the Tencent Robotics X Lab, under the guidance of Yu Zheng and Yonggen Ling. I obtained the Ph.D degree from Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL), U.K., jointly supervised by Prof. Kaspar Althoefer and Prof. Akram Alomainy. I obtained my BEng degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and QMUL, supervised by Prof. Khalid Z Rajab.
My research interests mainly focus on force and tactile sensing. I have published papers in top-tier robotic international journals and conferences such as NMI, T-RO, RA-L, IEEE Sensors, RSS, ICRA, IROS, RoboSoft.
🔥 News
- 2025.06 two IROS papers accepted!
- 2025.06 one NMI paper F-Tac Hand accepted!
- 2025.05 one TCE paper accepted!
- 2025.04 one RSS paper PP-Tac accepted!
- 2025.03 PP-Tac is accepted to ICLR 7th Robot Learning Workshop as a oral paper!
- 2024.11 one TRO paper Tac-Man accepted!
- 2024.10 one RA-L paper MiniTac accepted!
📝 Selected Publications
Embedding high-resolution touch across robotic hands enables adaptive human-like grasping
Zihang Zhao*, Wanlin Li*, Yuyang Li*, Tengyu Liu*, Boren Li, Meng Wang, Kai Du, Hangxin Liu†, Yixin Zhu†, Qining Wang, Kaspar Althoefer†, Song-Chun Zhu
Nature Machine Intelligence (NMI)
PP-Tac: Paper Picking Using Tactile Feedback in Dexterous Robotic Hands
Pei Lin*, Yuzhe Huang*, Wanlin Li*, Jianpeng Ma, Chenxi Xiao†, Ziyuan Jiao†
Robotics: Science and Systems 2025 (RSS 2025)
7th Robot Learning Workshop in ICLR 2025, oral
Tac-Man: Tactile-Informed Prior-Free Manipulation of Articulated Objects
Zihang Zhao*, Yuyang Li*, Wanlin Li, Zhenghao Qi, Lecheng Ruan†, Yixin Zhu†, Kaspar Althoefer
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO)
Wanlin Li*, Zihang Zhao*, Leiyao Cui*, Weiyi Zhang*, Hangxin Liu, Li-An Li†, Yixin Zhu†
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
L3 F-TOUCH: A Wireless GelSight with Decoupled Tactile and Three-axis Force Sensing
Wanlin Li*, Meng Wang*, Jiarui Li, Yao Su†, Devesh K. Jha, Xinyuan Qian, Kaspar Althoefer and Hangxin Liu†
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
💬 Reviewer
- Reviewer of T-RO, RA-L, IEEE Sensors Journal, IROS